Remote sensing of ocean waves by along-track interferometric synthetic aperture radar

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 114, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Zhang, Biao ^a   Perrie, Will ^a   He, Yijun ^b  

^a BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMBINES; GEODETIC SATELLITES; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OCEAN CURRENTS; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; WIND EFFECTS;

APRIORI; BUOY MEASUREMENTS; DIRECTIONAL WAVE SPECTRUM; IN-SITU; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; NONLINEAR MAPPINGS; OCEAN WAVE SPECTRA; OCEAN WAVES; PARAMETRIC RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM; PHASE IMAGE; PHASE SPECTRA; REMOTE SENSING OF OCEAN; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SCATTEROMETER DATA; SEA STATE; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE DIRECTION; WAVE IMAGING; WAVE RETRIEVAL; WIND SEA; WIND VECTORS;

WATER WAVES;

ALGORITHM; BUOY SYSTEM; OCEAN WAVE; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTEROMETER; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE MODELING; WAVE SPECTRUM;

EID: 76349125305     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005310     Document Type: Article

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